Sam Payne

Morning! Last day of our 30th Award today. Are you picking up a Last Minute Club badge? The club is open now till midnight ! £1460 in prizes.Results out end of June.Do share your badge here when you get one!
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My April #WritingCraft article is about the story structure ABDCE, how it works and how to shape it. There's even a fun little video what I made.

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Gooseberry Pie's 2nd Annual Writing Contest - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash Can you believe it? It’s almost April which means National Gooseberry Month is just around the corner. In celebration we are having our second annual writ...

Send in your 6-sentence micro to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social! It's free! You could win money! I'm judging the shortlist blind!!

Check out the prompt!!

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Congratulations, Sara! Fabulous story.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 20

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 19

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 18

Wingdings — Split Lip Magazine Sometime before Christmas the mothers made a deal. No more sugar, the mothers said. No more pudding no more lemon cake no more chewing gum no more Coca Cola no more ice cream no more Fruit-by-the-Foot...

You've got to read "Wingdings" by Nini Berndt - funny, surprising, emotional, about the sometimes dark and very separate worlds of kids and their mothers and how they sometimes crash together for a moment: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1224/n...

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 17

I should really start re-reading novels. I read my favourite short stories over and over, but never novels. I think it's because there's so many books in the world to read, I don't want to waste time.Thing is, I know re-reading will be rewarding 🤷‍♀️

WBTL Stories | MattKendrick.co.uk Portfolio of stories that started life on one of Matt Kendrick's Write Beyond The Lightbulb courses

Just been updating my wall of #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb stories - now 115 brilliant pieces that started life on one of my courses. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Amazed at all the superstar writers I get to write with on a regular basis 🤩

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/wbtl-stories

and don't forget, we are open for submissions of essays and fiction throughout December ...

details here:

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Yes, absolutely. I read it years ago, but I still think about it now.

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 16

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 15

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 14

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 13

Great piece!

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 12

The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 11

I remember the first time I read this, and the form snuck up on me in the most stunning way. From Natasha Trethewey's book, Monument: bookshop.org/a/862/978035...

#poem #poetry #natashatrethewey #books #writing

ICYMI

My last Substack of the year is an emoji-ed index of all of my resources. All free. All hopefully useful.

Please use. Please share.

And if you can afford it, I'd be so grateful if you'd give a small tip via my Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/mkenwrites

Thank you to everyone who has already done so! 🙏